This is not what I need, let me try again
1716 Entries found for Keyword(s) "bart erhman"
Editorial Comment
…Bart Ehrman. His latest book is, God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question-Why We Suffer. A Moody and Wheaton graduate, and also a Princeton Seminary Ph.D., he is now a professor of religion at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Not long ago…
What’s in a Name?
…The context for mission is changing faster than ever. The shelf life of your very best idea is diminishing. The creative tension between an unwavering focus on the mission and remaining relevant to a culture in flux has never been more important. Since its birth as an outgrowth of the…
Tribute to Bruce Kennedy
…Bruce Kennedy, former CEO of Alaska Airlines and advocate of Christian missions, died June 28th in the tragic crash of his Cessna 182 in Cashmere near Wenatchee in Eastern Washington. In 1991, after 32 years with Alaska Airlines, the last 12 years as the CEO, he shocked the corporate world…
Editorial Comment
…Dear Reader, Each issue of Mission Frontiers is in some key ways a “continued story.” This time two mission leaders talk about a fundamental transformation that is essential for the U. S. church. Lay people are being offered a superficial religious way of life, they say, but are still restless…
A Survey of Kingdom Collaboration
…What’s the Challenge? It’s said that all cultures have both idealized and realized values. These values represent the way things ought to be and the way they really are. The distance between what we dream about, hope for, and expect – and the way things really are can create tension,…
The Shifting God(s) of Western Christianity
…The following excerpts are taken from chapter 18 of The Bible in Cross-Cultural Perspective (William Carey Library, 2000). To obtain copies of this book and other thought-provoking resources, see www.MissionBooks.org Western Christians, especially missionaries from the West, have always declared that they worship and proclaim only one God, the God…
Maximizing the Bible!
…Editor’s note: our September-October cover theme, “Can We Trust Insider Movements?”, prompted a lot of response, and in these pages we give you a sampler of the subsequent conversation. The September-October issue included an article by John and Anna Travis, who said, “As we have seen the resistance toward changing…
Pursuing Faith, Not Religion
…The following is excerpted from chapters 5 and 6 of Appropriate Christianity (William Carey Library Publishers, 2005). It is not widely understood either outside of or even inside of Christianity that our faith is intended to be different from the religions in its relationship to the culture of the people…
Are We Trifling With Missions?
…Condensed from “The Evangelization of the World in the Present Generation—How Made a Fact,” a speech delivered by Rev. A.T. Pierson, D.D., at the First International Convention of the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, Friday, February 27, 1891. Original address found in Student Mission Power, published by William Carey…
Are You Ready for Purpose-Driven Mission?
…Even if you wanted to, it would be hard to ignore Rick Warren and the Purpose-Driven movement he has nurtured. Building on the earlier success of The Purpose-Driven Church, Warren’s Purpose-Driven Life has sold more than 20 million copies in the U.S. alone – in a little more than two…
Launching House Church Movements
…This chapter suggests four strategic steps that may help house church trends in various countries become rapidly growing people movements. Starting New House Churches It has been recognized that numerically the most effective way of reaching people for Christ is the genesis of new churches. Church growth guru Peter Wagner,…
Discovering the Wandering Jesus in Central Asia
…I’ve been in Kyrgyzstan for ten years. Before going, I felt the Lord said to me, “Learn from these people.” In the 1980s I had been very encouraged by Don Richardson and his book Eternity In Their Hearts, which set my mind in a different direction. I really believe that…
Another Alternative
…Rapid church growth in many countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America has heightened the challenge to train leaders able to nurture these new Christians. We need alternative models of mission training in both the Western and non-Western worlds today. One valuable alternative is the World Christian Foundations (WCF) study…
U.S. Standards of Excellence in Short-Term Mission
…Current research indicates the United States is sending at least 1,000,000 short-term mission volunteers every year. These short-term volunteers are sent by 40,000 “sending entities” consisting of 35,000 churches, 3,700 agencies, and more than 1,000 schools. Yet the missiological validity of short-term mission has been rightly questioned on countless occasions–especially…
Peoples, Partnerships,and Unexpected Complexities
…Wycliffe’s offer to broker an international partnership on behalf of the Kakanda of Nigeria (see the article to the left) is commendable. I hope that many American churches respond. But this prospective partnership is even more complex than it first appears. One way to discover some of the hidden complexities…
An Open Letter
…The Global Leadership Team of the World Evangelical Alliance, Missions Commission Issues related to the “Third Call”, an invitation to form a global fellowship of mission agency leaders [as presented in the May-June 2003 issue of Mission Frontiers]: Dear Colleagues in global mission, On behalf of the WEA Missions Commission…
Can a Distracted Church Reach Muslims?
…The overall impression of the June 30 TIME cover story is that opinions related to converting Muslims are all over the map. Some people share in ways that are bolder—and can cause trouble, while others live out their witness in more sensitive or guarded ways—which may not make progress. Rather…
Editorial Comment
…Dear friend, If I had the chance to “replay” on a TV screen just two minutes of some single distant past event, I know I would be cross-eyed with indecision. But, one of the leading candidates for those two minutes would certainly be a snippet from the “Northfield Conference” of…
Missionary Trainers Take the Next Step
…Richmond, VA One hundred forty-five missionary trainers from around the world met for three days in early January, at the International Missionary Board of the Southern Baptist’s Missionary Learning Center (MLC) outside Richmond (VA) for their annual conference. Sponsored by The Next Step Partnership In Missionary Training (NEXT Step) and…
Mission Leaders Respond to the Dawn Report Assessment of ‘Table 71’
…While the conclusions of the “Table 71” group, including delineation of the four-step process leading to the discipling of a people group, is a positive development, I would hesitate to describe this as “the most significant missiological breakthrough since 1974.” My observations would be: The four steps that have been…